aluminum case and has my attention
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At 03:57 PM 10/14/2005, warpmedia Poked the stick with:
>Still it's better to have the HDD's at the bottom in current cases (as heat
>rises) the top of the case IS hotter than bottom AND cool air comes in from
>the bottom.
>
>Do like the idea of a heat tunnel, wind tunnel, whatever in this case design
>as it would concentrate air flow where it's needed. Cool air in over HDD, then
>into fan, then into PSU & out while being "insulated" from the rest of the
>case.
>
>I'm also guessing the back fan would blow in over the chip set vs. exhaust
>like current designs do, then exhaust up & out. No need for side blow holes
>then? Interesting to see if anyone does a benchmark to see if it's truly
>better cooling.
>
> From the mechanical drawing I'd say looks impressive.
>
>http://www.antec.com/pdf/drawings/P180_manual_techdata.pdf
>
>Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
>>At 02:52 PM 14/10/2005, Greg Sevart wrote:
>>
>>>Get used to it..this is how many new cases are designed.
>>>The PSU and hard drives are contained in a partition in the bottom. The PSU
>>>(and sometimes another fan) draws air over the HDs, cooling them, and
>>>another fan is used to exhaust hot air at the top.
>>>
>>>Really seems like a decent design to me...
>>
>>Except that with heat rising, it makes more sense to me to put the CPU, HD
>>and CDROM at the top of the case, with vanes above them to allow the heat to
>>rise, and a fan at the front to pull air in and one at the back to exhaust it
>>out.
>>Lots of cases put the HDs at the bottom, and even with a great fan system,
>>you still get heat rising into the case.
>>T
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